Brass Rate Today in India – September 2026

Live pital rate across 5 scrap grades and 6 brass hubs, updated this morning. Today’s best clean-grade rate: chadri (sheet cutting) at ₹950/kg in Jamnagar, off the foundry buying board. Below: the full grade table split into wholesale foundry versus household pickup, the copper-zinc arithmetic that sets the ceiling, city-wise hub and periphery rates, the drivers moving the number this week, and the weighbridge checks that keep ₹50–₹80/kg in your pocket instead of the buyer’s.

Quick answer — the brass rate today in India (14 September 2026) is ₹850–₹950/kg for clean sorted brass scrap at wholesale foundry boards in Jamnagar and Mumbai, and ₹500–₹650/kg at household or kabadiwala pickup. Chadri leads at ₹920–₹950/kg, honey brass sits at ₹880–₹930/kg, utensil brass (bartan / pital) at ₹850–₹890/kg, purja at ₹800–₹850/kg and turnings at ₹720–₹780/kg. Copper at ₹1,380/kg and zinc at ₹376/kg on MCX put the raw metal value of 65:35 brass at ₹1,028/kg, so a foundry paying ₹930 buys at roughly a 9% discount for melting loss. Every figure on this page is ex-yard and excludes 18% GST.

Start with the one fact that decides every brass quote in the country: brass has no price of its own. Copper holds 65% of the alloy weight and zinc holds the rest, so the Jamnagar foundry board rewrites itself every time MCX copper moves ₹20. Copper is sitting on ₹1,380/kg resistance today, a level it has bounced off twice since July. Until it breaks either way, honey brass is anchored at ₹880–₹930 and nothing a dealer tells you about “market being slow” changes that arithmetic. Read the table, run the formula, and you know the ceiling before your truck reaches the bridge.

Today’s Brass Scrap Price Table (14 September 2026)

All rates ₹ per kg, ex-yard · 14 September 2026 · Wholesale = foundry buying board, Jamnagar / Mumbai · Household = doorstep pickup · 18% GST extra on every figure

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A full truck of single-grade chadri commands the top of every bracket. Ten kilos of mixed bartan in a gunny bag lands at the bottom. The grade sets the base; the form and the lot size decide which end of the range you touch.

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The Channel Gap: Why Your Kabadiwala Pays ₹300 Less

The trade board says ₹930. The man at your gate says ₹620. Both numbers are real, and the ₹300 between them is not theft. The kabadiwala absorbs three costs the foundry never sees. He sorts mixed household lots by hand, separating brass from brass-plated iron, bronze taps and copper fittings. He aggregates 5 kg pickups into a 500 kg lot worth trucking to Kurla, Bhosari or Jamnagar. He carries the contamination risk: one lead-soldered joint or steel-cored knob hidden in a bag drops his entire lot one grade at the foundry gate.

Sell direct to a yard in lots above 100 kg and you recover most of that margin. Sell 15 kg at your doorstep and the ₹300 is the price of convenience. The same channel economics run through ferrous; read why factory and yard scrap prices differ before you accept a gate rate as the market rate.

The 30-Second Metal Math: Why Brass Isn’t Its Own Commodity

MCX copper and zinc, 14 September 2026 · Standard yellow brass at 65:35 · The only formula you need before any brass negotiation

No exchange in India lists a brass future. Every foundry in Jamnagar prices its buying board off two MCX contracts and a melting-loss discount. Run the same arithmetic yourself and you strip every dealer of the “market is soft” excuse.

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That ₹1,028 is the value of the metal locked inside one kilo of clean brass. A foundry paying ₹930 for honey brass buys at a 9.5% discount. Zinc vaporises well below copper’s melting point, so every furnace charge loses a slice of it to fume and dross; add slag, energy and the foundry’s own margin and 9–10% is the fair number for clean material. Purja sits at 17% because the buyer expects steel, lead and paint inside.

City-Wise Brass Rates: Hubs vs Periphery (14 September 2026)

Chadri and honey brass, foundry buying basis · 18% GST extra · Periphery discount = freight and weighbridge cost to the nearest serious foundry

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Market Drivers: What’s Pushing the Brass Rate This Week

Every input that sets your brass rate, on one screen · Green pushes brass up, red pushes it down

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Count the colours: four pushing up, one pushing down, one flat, one cutting both ways. The upward pressures all act on clean, sorted brass that a Jamnagar extruder can charge straight into a furnace. The one downward pressure, soft fabrication demand, hits mixed and household lots hardest because those go to smaller remelters who are the first to stop buying. Iron is moving on a different set of drivers this week; compare with the iron scrap rate today if you are clearing a mixed demolition site.

How to Avoid Getting Cheated at the Weighbridge

Work through this before you call a buyer, not after the truck is loaded

1. Run the magnet test yourself. Brass is non-magnetic. If a magnet grips, you are holding brass-plated steel worth ₹30/kg as iron, not ₹900 as brass. Buyers run this test on every bag; run it first at home so plated junk never contaminates your clean lot. The same test separates 304 stainless from 202; the SS scrap rate page explains how yards use it.
2. Strip every piece of steel. One steel handle bolted to a brass pan gives the buyer a reason to reclassify 10 kg of bartan as purja. That costs you ₹50–₹80 on that lot alone. Twenty minutes with a spanner and a hacksaw before loading pays better than any negotiation. Brass with embedded steel is one of the most common reasons scrap loads get downgraded or rejected.
3. Ask gross or net before the truck goes on the bridge. Yards apply a 2–5% deduction for dust, oil, moisture and “foreign material”. On a 2-tonne load at ₹900, a 4% cut is ₹72,000 gone. Agree the deduction percentage in writing on the quote, not after the weighbridge slip prints. Weighbridge weight beats yard weighing every time, and a certified slip is your only evidence in a dispute.
4. Separate grades yourself. Mixed lots get priced at the lowest grade present. Five gunny bags of sorted chadri, honey, bartan, purja and turnings earn ₹40–₹60/kg more in total than one heap of the same metal.
5. Take three quotes on the same morning. Brass reprices with copper intraday. A Tuesday quote is not a quote on Thursday. Ask each buyer for a rate per named grade, not one blended number for the load.
6. Agree payment terms in writing. Same-day settlement with a GST invoice beats a ₹15 better rate on 30-day credit that you then chase. Read the scrap dealer truths every seller must know and the seller mistakes that cost the most before your next load.

Brass Rate FAQs

What is the cost of 1 kg of brass?

Clean brass scrap costs ₹850–₹950 per kg at wholesale foundry boards in Jamnagar and Mumbai today (14 September 2026). Household pickup and kabadiwala rates run ₹500–₹650 per kg because the collector absorbs sorting, freight and contamination risk. All rates exclude 18% GST.

What is the rate of 1 kg pital today?

Pital, or utensil brass (bartan), trades at ₹850–₹890 per kg at foundry level and ₹550–₹600 per kg at doorstep pickup on 14 September 2026. Moradabad remelters pay the top of the wholesale range for clean bartan with rivets and steel handles removed.

Is there a brass rate on MCX?

No. MCX runs no active retail brass contract. Traders and foundries derive brass value from MCX copper (₹1,380/kg) and MCX zinc (₹376/kg) using the 65:35 alloy weighting, which gives ₹1,028/kg raw metal value today, then apply a 8–10% melting-loss discount for clean grades.

Why is brass cheaper than copper?

Brass is copper diluted with 30–40% zinc, and zinc costs roughly a quarter of copper. The raw metal value of 65:35 brass today is about ₹1,028/kg against ₹1,380/kg for pure copper, and scrap brass trades at a further discount because zinc burns off in the furnace.

What is the difference between brass and bronze scrap rates?

Bronze (copper plus tin) trades ₹80–₹150/kg above brass because tin costs many times more than zinc. Yards test with a file: bronze cuts harder and shows a redder colour under the surface, brass shows bright yellow.

Which city has the highest brass scrap rate in India?

Jamnagar sets the highest brass benchmark in India, with chadri at ₹950/kg today, because its extrusion and hardware units consume scrap faster than the region produces it. Mumbai follows ₹10–₹20 under on clean grades; periphery belts like Mangaon, Raigad and Odisha trade ₹30–₹50 lower to cover freight.

Do brass scrap rates include GST?

No. Every rate on this page is ex-GST. Registered sellers add 18% GST on the invoice; a registered buyer purchasing from an unregistered seller pays under reverse charge. The GST guide for scrap sellers covers who pays and when.

Final Market Summary (14 September 2026)

Check live iron, stainless and brass spot rates on steel-baba.com before you book a truck. A rate that was fair at 9 AM is stale by 2 PM when copper moves.

How We Source These Rates

Steel Baba Market Desk methodology · Last reviewed 14 September 2026

• Exchange inputs — MCX copper and zinc near-month settlement at 10:00 AM IST, cross-checked against LME cash via Reuters. These set the raw metal value published above.
• Foundry boards — Jamnagar and Mumbai buying boards for chadri, honey, bartan, purja and turnings, called before 10:00 AM. Wholesale rates on this page are what a foundry pays for sorted lots, not what a trader hopes to resell at.
• Household pickup baselines — verified dealer aggregates for Mumbai, Pune, Delhi and Nagpur, labelled separately because they price different material through a different route.
• Periphery discounts — our own yard survey across Mangaon, Mahad, Raigad and the Konkan corridor, with freight cross-checked against transporter quotes.

All figures are indicative and exclude 18% GST. We publish ranges because that is how the market quotes; a single number for a grade across a whole city would be fiction. Brass reprices intraday with copper. Confirm with a verified buyer before you finalise anything.

Scrap rates published on this page are indicative market references compiled from third-party sources and are not offers to buy or sell. All rates exclude 18% GST and change daily. Confirm with a verified buyer before finalising any transaction.